Recent News

The East Central University Athletic Department will host “ECU Haunted Hoops” Tuesday, Oct. 27, at the Kerr Activities Center, immediately following the conclusion of the Tigers’ volleyball match against Langston that starts at 7 p.m.

Admission to the volleyball match and “ECU Haunted Hoops” is free.

Put on as a joint effort between the Tigers men’s and women’s basketball teams, the event will feature contests, prizes, free treats courtesy of Landmark Bank, introductions of the 2015-16 ECU basketball teams and an autograph session with players.

When East Central University students seek a certain person to play them in ping pong, they often ask Norden Tamang.

Chances are Tamang, an ECU freshman from Nepal, is going to come out the winner, considering she won the 37th National Table Tennis Championship for 2015 for the junior division in her home country of Nepal.

Tamang reached the national tournament by winning one of 75 district tourneys in her home country. She also captured a pair of bronze medals while competing in a tournament in New Deli in June.

Representatives of business schools from 25 college and universities in five states are on the East Central University campus this week for the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) Region 6 Conference at the Chickasaw Business and Conference Center.

Approximately 250 people are in attendance, including the business school representatives (adults and college students), high school students, ECU faculty and various volunteers. Region 6 consists of business schools and programs from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Texas.

Four East Central University students were awarded funding under the NASA National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program for the 2015-2016 academic year.

Kylee Boydstun, a junior biology major from Ada; Morgan Mackey a junior molecular biology major from Choctaw; Brandon Postoak, a senior biology major from Allen and Heather Wright, a junior biology major from Antlers were the four award winners from ECU.

The musical works of Handel, Bach, Mozart, Milhaud, Rachmaninov and Bernstein, along with that of East Central University student composer Steve H. Filkins can be heard in a concert Thursday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Ada Arts and Heritage Center.

ECU’s Dr. Melody Baggech, associate professor of music, and Dr. Lark Powers, assistant professor of music, will be joined by Emily Ross, Alexandra Aguirre-Berman and Catie Caton in the performance.

Representing East Central University and serving as a delegate for the United States, Dr. Mara Sukholutskaya took part in the XIII International Congress of Teachers of the Russian Language and Literature (MAPRYAL) in September in Granada, Spain.

The venue for the event was the Palace of Congresses. University of Granada was a local host.

East Central University is planning to raise awareness about cyber security during Cyber Security Awareness Month.

An FBI representative, along with Bryan Sherbourne, cyber security expert, will present the “Main Event” from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13 in the Estep Multimedia Center in the Bill S. Cole University Center. Sherbourne will educate attendees about cyberbullying, current cyber threats and all we can do to be safer with the use of internet and social media.

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